Stuart Weinstein Wins OREF Award for Practice-Changing Scoliosis Research
The Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation (OREF) has bestowed its 2015 Clinical Research Award on Stuart Weinstein, MD, professor of …
New NEJM Article Cites Old Clinical Guidelines for Knee OA Treatment
A “Clinical Therapeutics” article in the March 12, 2015 New England Journal of Medicine focuses on viscosupplementation for knee …
Surgery and Sling Deliver Equal Outcomes for Proximal Humerus Fractures
A multisite, randomized trial of 250 patients (mean age of 66) with a displaced fracture of the surgical neck of …
Rethinking the Use of Pelvic Binders with Acetabular Fractures
Pelvic binders can provide lifesaving compression in patients with hemodynamically unstable pelvic injuries. But a report in the March 11, …
Cut Infection Risk: Give Antibiotics within 60 Minutes of Open Tibia Fractures
A level-II retrospective prognostic study of 137 patients with type III open tibia fractures found that those given antibiotics within …
Message to Postmenopausal Women with Mild Knee OA: Jump!
A randomized study of 80 postmenopausal women with mild knee osteoarthritis found that those assigned to a supervised progressive-impact exercise …
Two New “Solutions” to Prickly Orthopaedic Problems
A study on rat knees in Osteoarthritis and Cartilage suggests that irrigating joints with hyperosmotic saline (600 mOsm) reduced surgically …
Stopping DMARDs Often Unnecessary for RA Patients Prior to Orthopaedic Surgery
Most patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) will undergo orthopaedic surgery during the course of their disease, and more than 80% …
Three New Knee Studies Yield Interesting Results
We stumbled upon three recent studies of knee osteoarthritis (OA) that shed interesting new light on a condition that all …